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Seeing through multilingual corpora : on the use of corpora in contrastive studies /

Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to a renewal of contrastive studies. We gain new insight into similarities and differences between languages, at the same time as the characte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johansson, Stig, 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2007.
Colección:Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to a renewal of contrastive studies. We gain new insight into similarities and differences between languages, at the same time as the characteristics of each language are brought into relief. The present book focuses on the work in building and using the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus and the Oslo Multilingual Corpus. Case studies are reported on lexis, grammar, and discourse. A concluding chapter sums up problems and prospects of corp.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xx, 355 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027292827
9027292825
128215494X
9781282154940
ISSN:1388-0373 ;